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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 19, 2026· Updated Aug 17, 2026

CVE-2026-64149

CVE-2026-64149

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dma-mapping: move dma_map_resource() sanity check into debug code

dma_map_resource() uses pfn_valid() to ensure the range is not RAM. However, pfn_valid() only checks for availability of the memory map for a PFN but it does not ensure that the PFN is actually backed by RAM. On ARM64 with SPARSEMEM (128MB section granularity), MMIO addresses that share a section with RAM will falsely trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE and cause dma_map_resource() to return DMA_MAPPING_ERROR.

This causes a WARNING on Raspberry Pi 4 during spi_bcm2835 probe because the SPI FIFO register (0xfe204004) falls in the same sparsemem section as the end of RAM (0xf8000000-0xfbffffff), both in section 31 (0xf8000000-0xffffffff).

Move the sanity check from dma_map_resource() into debug_dma_map_phys() and replace the unreliable pfn_valid() with pfn_valid() && !PageReserved(), which correctly identifies actual usable RAM without false positives for MMIO regions that happen to have struct pages.

Since dma_map_resource() is dma_map_phys(DMA_ATTR_MMIO), the check applies equally to both APIs. Any non-reserved page represents kernel memory to a sufficient degree that using DMA_ATTR_MMIO on it is almost certainly wrong and risks breaking coherency on non-coherent platforms. ZONE_DEVICE pages used for PCI P2P DMA (MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA) have PageReserved set, so they will not trigger a false positive.

The check no longer blocks the mapping and uses err_printk() to integrate with dma-debug filtering.

Affected products

7
  • Linux/Kernel6 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 5 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.18,<6.18.34
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.18.0, < 6.18.34

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